Archive for October, 2008

Companion to 10/31/08 single, quiet thought

Friday, October 31st, 2008

~Commentary on Surrender~

Surrender is an act of not knowing while also desiring to be led by knowledge.

Surrender is an intent. It is the intent to be used by all, for all, with the good of all as one’s only purpose.

True surrender cannot be accomplished by one who has his own best interests in mind, because when one has an eye on his own best interests, he has also defined himself as apart from the all.

One can only truly surrender when he forgets to consider his best interests, and he asks the allness to make of him a slave, because he knows that to serve without thinking is joy, and to think without serving is the cause of all pain

A single, quiet thought (10/31/08)

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The inner guiding force
is the force of all knowledge,
all love
and all compassion.

And yet,
the inner guiding force
is not recognized by one
who thinks he has knowledge,
knows love
and acts compassionately.

The inner guiding force
is known by one
who knows he does not know
and can not know,
and so he surrenders
to that which does.

Companion to 10/30/08 single, quiet thought

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

~Commentary on the Inner Guiding Force~

The inner guiding force is birthed from silence, which means “not thinking.” It is described as a prodding or nudging, because it moves to action without reason or justification. It leads to non-action without telling why.

The inner guiding force is a guiding force and not a forcing force, because the guiding force requires (or respects) your cooperation. It does not ask of you that which you do not want to give, and if you want to give what it does not ask, it surrenders and rearranges itself in response to you. It this way, it is a perfect leader, because it leads as it would have you follow and it follows as it would have you lead.

The inner guiding force is discussed as if it is a separate force, but it cannot be. It is the perfect attunement of the allness as oneness, because the oneness is allness and the allness is one.

You cannot go against the will of the inner guiding force, because the inner guiding force provides in response to you. And yet, you cannot know the fulfillment of your part as the inner guiding force unless you listen as it listens and act as it acts.

Through being one with the inner guiding force, you know yourself as one with it.

Through driving the inner guiding force, you experience yourself as separate, and yet you are experiencing yourself in a way that can never be true.

A single, quiet thought (10/30/08)

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The inner guiding force
is not a separate force
guiding against the intentions
of the all.

The inner guiding force
is a resulting force
coming from the all
for the all
in love.

This is why you can trust
the inner guiding force.
It is the perfect flow of harmony
given in answer
to the call and request
of all.

A single, quiet thought (10/22/08)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The guiding force of love
is a gentle force
that guides gently and quietly
from within.

But the guiding force
is a strong force
and a sure force
that can be heard clearly
when it is wanted.

Do not expect from the guiding force.
When you expect, you may not hear,
because that which you expect
may blind you
to the message that is given.

Be open to receive
without any expectation at all,
and trust the guidance
that isn’t noise.

A single, quiet thought (10/21/08)

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

The way of within is silence,
not because everything is silent
around you,
but because silence guides
within you.

When the world is busy
and the mind follows suit,
the noise is merely on top of
the silence.

Silence still exists.

Tune in to the gentle prodding
birthed from the silence within.
Do not ask it to be like the noise.
Do not ask it to explain and justify itself.
Simply listen and follow,
and you are one
with the guiding force of love.

A single, quiet thought (10/20/08)

Monday, October 20th, 2008

The way of within
is the way of rest,
because the way of within
is the way of flowing
with the guiding force of all.

The guiding force does not force.
It listens,
and then it delivers
through gentle prodding
that which is in the best interest
of all.

The guiding force is love
and it acts in love
as love
because love is all it knows.

A single, quiet thought (10/19/08)

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Listen only
for what you are to give.

Listening within,
placing the attention there,
tunes being
with an inner guiding force.

This force,
the inner guiding force,
is in tune with all things.

Focusing out
on the world of wants and needs
places the body
in tune with a driving force.

A driving force creates effort
and more need for driving.

A guiding force creates rest,
and an awareness of attunement.

A single, quiet thought (10/18/08)

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Do not ask.
But listen only
for what you are to give.

When one asks for himself
one is listening to the mind
that thinks it is separate
from other.

When one does not ask,
not even for the smallest
or humblest of needs,
one is knowing
there is no need to ask.
For there is only the Whole,
which always serves its Self.

A single, quiet thought (10/17/08)

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Life is constant.
Stories change.

One who listens to life
and lives from life
lives in a state of constancy.
He does not see change
because his eyes are fixed
on constant.

One who listens to stories
wavers.
He is unaware of constant,
because his eyes
are not looking there.